Finding the dead
Bodies, bones and burials from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage Expedition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9225802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas R Stenton (0000-0002-8561-1470, University of Waterloo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 197-212 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247418000359 |
| OpenAlex | W2899316449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 35 |
On 22 April 1848, after three years in the Arctic, and 19 months spent ice-bound in northern Victoria Strait, the 105 surviving officers and crew of the Franklin Northwest Passage expedition deserted HMS Erebus and HMS Terror as the first step of their escape plan. They assembled at a camp south of Victory Point on the northwest coast of King William Island and made the final preparations for the next step, a 400 km trek along the frozen seashores of King William Island and Adelaide Peninsula to the Back River. All of the men died before reaching their destination, and their remains have been found at 35 locations along the route of the retreat. These discoveries have played a central role in reenactments of events thought to have occurred during the failed attempt to reach the Back River and to the disastrous outcome of the expedition. This paper presents a summary of these findings and examines the criteria used to attribute them to the Franklin expedition. It is suggested that approximately one-third of the identifications have been based on information that is inadequate to confidently assign the human remains as those of Franklin expedition personnel
Archaeology · Arctic · Geography · Peninsula · The arctic · Victory · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology
The Franklin Expedition Relics and Remains Found at Qavdlunaarsiorfik, Adelaide Peninsula, 1923 and 1924
Cognitive archaeology
The integration of isotopic and historical data to investigate the identification of crewmembers of the 1845 Franklin expedition
A Franklin expedition officer's burial at Two Grave Bay, King William Island, Nunavut
“Some very hard ground to heave”
The Archaeology of Cannibalism
British sailor or Inuk? A reappraisal of the ancestry of human skeletal remains found in 1949 by Henry Larsen, Cape Felix, King William Island
DNA identification of a sailor from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage expedition
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar
Use your best endeavours to discover a sheltered and safe harbour
Finding “Harry Peglar”
Notes On Franklin Relics
A Critical Assessment of the Oral Condition of the Crew of the Franklin Expedition + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)
A Most Inhospitable Coast
A Case Study
History, Oral History and Archaeology
The “Boat Place” Burial
The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition
DNA analysis of human skeletal remains from the 1845 Franklin expedition
Hartnell's time machine” reprise
Hartnell's time machine
Scurvy as a factor in the loss of the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic
Discovery of human remains from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition
New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin’s last expedition to the Arctic, 1845
Source identification of lead found in tissues of sailors from the Franklin Arctic Expedition of 1845
The Lead Content of Human Bones from the 1845 Franklin Expedition
The Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24. The Danish Ethnographical and Geographical Expedition from Greenland to the Pacific
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Finding Franklin
A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845–1848
A comparative analysis of the Su-pung-er and Bayne testimonies related to the Franklin expedition
Intrapopulation variation in macro tooth wear patterns—a case study from Igloolik, Canada
Recently Discovered Traces of the Franklin Expedition
Bones of Contention
Evidence for End-stage Cannibalism on Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition to the Arctic, 1845
Some Further Traces of the Franklin Retreat
Canada's Western Arctic
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |